[muir_redwoods]

"Your sexual habist and practices are not a private matter. They are quite public when they either do not produce reproductive results or do so in abudance. The death of western civilisation is toi a large extent due to the attitude that what one does in private has no public or general effect on society. Quite the opposite is of course true. The "right to privacy" is a modern bourgeois concept that doesn't even exist in the constitution. Societies have a primal imperative to assure their own perpetuation. It has been so since the dawn of mankind. Those societies that become lax in that respect, become extinct as did the Romans and other civilisations before us."

I have rarely read a paragraph with more errors-per-word.

I am a private person and my consensual behavior with another adult is, literally, none of your business. No rationalizing on your part can change that and no minor-league jesuitical discourse will alter it.

[RHINO369]

Not to mention with the leaps in productivity, and the unprecedented leap in technological knowledge, a civilizations population matters much less than it did 2000 years ago. Within the next 100 years, wars will be fought by machines and robots, that were built by robots and machines, that are powered by nuclear power plants that are managed automatically. Having a population at 600 million would be worse than having a population at 350 million because we'd have to struggle to feed those 600 million.

[Cacique]

All actions by all individuals whether in private or in public, whether consensual or not have public consequences. I pay taxes to educate other people's children which they had by a private consensual act. Our entire society is the result of the small private decisions of individuals which have public and societal consequences one way or another. Nothing that you do in private can in any way be divorced from consequences which in the end must be paid for by your neighbors.

You may if you wish claim to have "rights". However consequences of actions are not subject to debate. They simply are.